From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 05:45:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08052 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 05:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA08042 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 05:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10757; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:39:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA19389; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:39:25 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199708251239.NAA19389@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:34:45 +0200." <3138.872494485@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:39:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As i wrote: the TLDs are not supposed to contain A or CNAME entries at > > all. So if you're looking up an A entry, you don't need to query it > > in the root domain if it doesn't contain at least one dot. > > Where do you see any prohibition of TLDs containing A records? Note that > there *are* already TLDs containing A records in existence today (the > first one I found was AI, Anguilla). Hmm, I had a poke around too. net has an A record, but ORG doesn't. > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no I like Joerg's suggestion :-) It would solve my problems. Joerg, any advance on some documentation about TLDs not having A records (or even TLDs not needing A records) ? I'd be nice to have the resolver behave as you suggested. -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....